{"id":1042858,"date":"2026-10-13T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042858"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:46:48","slug":"modi-at-25-the-hug-indian-science-is-still-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/13\/modi-at-25-the-hug-indian-science-is-still-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi at 25: The hug Indian science is still waiting for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 25 years, Narendra Modi has made Indians proud of their scientists. He has not yet made India a good place to be one <\/p>\n<p>Of all the images from Narendra Modi\u2019s 25 years in power, the one I keep returning to was taken on a bad day. It was the morning of 7 September 2019. Hours earlier, Chandrayaan-2\u2019s Vikram lander had lost contact during its final descent, 2.1 km above the Moon. At the ISRO centre in Bengaluru, the Prime Minister pulled K Sivan, the space agency\u2019s chief, into a long embrace while Sivan wept on his shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 25 years, Narendra Modi has made Indians proud of their scientists. He has not yet made India a good place to be one Of all the images from Narendra Modi\u2019s 25 years in power, the one I keep returning to was taken on a bad day. It was the morning of 7 September 2019. Hours earlier, Chandrayaan-2\u2019s Vikram lander had lost contact during its final descent, 2.1 km above the Moon. At the ISRO centre in Bengaluru, the Prime Minister pulled K Sivan, the space agency\u2019s chief, into a long embrace while Sivan wept on his shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042867,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042858\/revisions\/1042867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}